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JAIL CONDITIONS
CODING IN PROCESS
Ray v. Madison Co., et al

1:20-cv-02973 | U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Indiana

Filed Date: Nov. 13, 2020

Closed Date: June 23, 2021

None
JAIL CONDITIONS
CODING IN PROCESS
Kentucky County Judge/Executive Association, Inc. (and 112 Counties) v. Commonwealth of KY, Justice & Public Safety Cabinet, Department of Corrections

08-01851 | Kentucky state trial court

Filed Date: 2008

Case Ongoing

Excerpt from an email about this case:Plaintiffs are seeking this action, that KRS 431.215(2) and KRS 441.025(1) are unconstitutional "because said statutes contravene the Kentucky Constitution and declaring that the Commonwealth Kentucky is responsible for reimbursement to the counties for expenses incurred by the counties for prisoners housed in county jails for which the inmate receives a credit for time served, for the reasons set forth..."
PRISON CONDITIONS
Sostre v. McGinnis

62-cv-28785 | U.S. District Court for the Western District of New York

Filed Date: 1962

Closed Date: Oct. 26, 1964

This is a historic case about religious liberty in New York prisons. It's part of the Clearinghouse's collection of several cases brought by prisoners rights activist (and prisoner) Martin Sostre, whose wikipedia biography is here.  In 1964, Sostre and other individuals incarcerated at Attica sued the New York Commissioner of Correction and the warden of Attica under §1983. Specifically, the plaintiffs alleged that the defendant violated their rights with respect to their religious practice, in…
IMMIGRATION AND/OR THE BORDER
Vayeghan v. Kelly

2:17-cv-00702 | U.S. District Court for the Central District of California

Filed Date: Jan. 28, 2017

Closed Date: June 27, 2017

This action, filed on January 28, 2017, in the U.S. District Court for the Central District of California (in Los Angeles), challenged President Trump’s January 27, 2017, Executive Order (EO-1) banning non-U.S. citizen nationals of Iraq, Iran, Libya, Somalia, Sudan, Syria, and Yemen from entering the United States. The plaintiff, an Iranian citizen with a U.S. immigrant visa and a U.S. citizen son, filed a petition for a writ of habeas corpus seeking immediate release from detention and a civil…
ELECTION/VOTING RIGHTS
Eisen v. Cuomo

7:20-cv-05121 | U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York

Filed Date: July 3, 2020

Closed Date: Aug. 12, 2020

An independent candidate for the United States House of Representatives in New York’s 17th congressional district filed a lawsuit on July 3, 2020 in order to declare unconstitutional, enjoin, or modify New York's in-person signature requirements for candidates seeking to qualify for the November 2020 elections due to the difficulties in obtaining these signatures caused by COVID-19. The Governor of New York had issued an Executive Order to suspend the collection of signatures for petitions of c…
POLICING
CODING IN PROCESS
DOJ Investigation of Phoenix Police Department

No Docket | No Court

Filed Date: 2021

Case Ongoing

(This summary is temporary, while we research the case.)On August 5, 2021, the Department of Justice (DOJ) announced it was opening a pattern and practice investigation into the City of Phoenix and the Phoenix Police Department. According to the announcement, the investigation, initiated under the Violent Crime Control and Law Enforcement Act of 1994, will examine whether the City and the Department violated the First, Fourth, and Fourteenth Amendment of citizens or the 1964 Civil Rights Act an…
PUBLIC BENEFITS/GOVERNMENT SERVICES
Helen L. v. DiDario

2:92-cv-06054 | U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania

Filed Date: Oct. 21, 1992

Closed Date: June 7, 1996

Plaintiffs filed this lawsuit, an Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) challenge to the Pennsylvania Department of Public Welfare's refusal to provide them with in-home attendant care services rather than nursing home care, in the fall of 1992, in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania. There were five plaintiffs in this case (Helen L., Beverly D., Ilene F., Florence H., and Idell S.) who were joined and dismissed at various times, depending on their institutionaliza…
POLICING
Arrington v. City of Philadelphia

2:88-02264 | U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania

Filed Date: March 17, 1988

In the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania in 1988, two plaintiffs filed a complaint pursuant to 42 U.S.C. § 1983, naming as defendants the City of Philadelphia and various police officials and officers. Represented by private counsel and attorneys with the ACLU of Pennsylvania, the plaintiffs alleged that the defendants, as part of an aggressive police hunt for the "City Center Stalker" (a then-unidentified black male suspected of a series of armed crimes), violated t…
JUVENILE INSTITUTION
Aguilar v. Mitchell

2:77-cv-00254 | U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Washington

Filed Date: Sept. 9, 1977

On September 9, 1977, a juvenile detained at the juvenile detention center in the Walla Walla County Courthouse, in Washington, filed a class action lawsuit under 42 U.S.C. § 1983 in the U.S. District Court, Eastern District of Washington against state judges, county commissioners, and administrators of Court Services of Walla Walla County. The class consisted of all juveniles who had been confined in the juvenile detention center since 1975, who were confined in the detention center at the tim…
NURSING HOME CONDITIONS
DOJ CRIPA Investigation of the Reginald P. White Nursing Facility, MS

Never Filed | No Court

Filed Date: Nov. 16, 2004

Closed Date: Feb. 24, 2010

Pursuant to the Civil Rights of Institutionalized Persons Act ("CRIPA"), 42 U.S.C. § 1997, the Civil Rights Division of the U.S. Department of Justice ("DOJ") conducted an investigation of conditions at the Reginald P. White Nursing Facility ("RWNF"), a public nursing home facility in Mississippi, evidently operated by one of the state's counties. The investigation resulted in a findings letter being sent to the governor of Mississippi on May 20, 2003. The letter stated that in August 2002, D…